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The ls version is preferred if you need to deal with more than a few dozen files.
The * version is preferred when the number of files is known to be small. It may fail with 'too many arguments' if the number of files grows too large to fit in one shell variable.
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xdg-open
XDG-OPEN(1) XDG-OPEN(1)
NAME
xdg-open - opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application
SYNOPSIS
xdg-open {file URL}
xdg-open {--help --manual --version}
DESCRIPTION
xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application. If a URL is provided the URL will be opened in the user's preferred web
browser. If a file is provided the file will be opened in the preferred application for files of that type. xdg-open supports file, ftp,
http and https URLs.
xdg-open is for use inside a desktop session only. It is not recommended to use xdg-open as root.
OPTIONS
--help Show command synopsis.
--manual
Show this manualpage.
--version
Show the xdg-utils version information.
EXIT CODES
An exit code of 0 indicates success while a non-zero exit code indicates failure. The following failure codes can be returned:
1 Error in command line syntax.
2 One of the files passed on the command line did not exist.
3 A required tool could not be found.
4 The action failed.
EXAMPLES
xdg-open 'http://www.freedesktop.org/'
Opens the Freedesktop.org website in the user's default browser
xdg-open /tmp/foobar.png
Opens the PNG image file /tmp/foobar.png in the user's default image viewing application.
AUTHOR
Kevin Krammer, Jeremy White.
<kevin.krammer@gmx.at>
<jwhite@codeweavers.com>
xdg-utils 1.0 06/24/2007 XDG-OPEN(1)